Hello to all. I thought this time I will give you a little day in the life when we are just home. When I do these blogs I just skip those days because they are boring but I like hearing how you other moms do things when you are just home. So I will try and tell you what a typical day in my life is when I don't leave the house. So my day starts about 5:30 or so with Kelly telling me bye that he is leaving for work. Then about 8 - 8:30 Heidi, Nigel, and Margo wake up. Margo I give a bottle to and she will sometimes go back to sleep for a bit but not always. Heidi and Nigel come out and read books while I wake up on the couch and think about my day. Margo is usually up soon after her bottle is gone so she joins us in the living room and wakes up a bit before breakfast. Breakfast for Heidi is always cinnamon toast crunch. She will not consider anything else but once in a great while she will have eggs. Nigel will have eggs (i haven't made them a way he won't eat them), oatmeal with raisins, or cereal. Margo will have scrambled eggs or yogurt and me i'm a cereal girl. Then it's time for chores. Heidi and Nigel have to empty the dishwasher, feed the dog and cat, make their beds, and get dressed before they play. While they are doing that I will dress Margo and comb her hair and get myself ready for the day. Then I start laundry. I try and do a load everyday. Heidi and Nigel will take turns helping me do it. Margo will go for a nap about 2 hours after woke up and sleep for about 1 hour or so. If it's nice out Heidi and Nigel will go outside and play and I will do what ever needs doing for the day. Lunch is around noon or so. After lunch Heidi and Nigel will often go back outside till nap time. Then I try and do my work with a 14 month old following me every where. Some times we just sit and play. Nap time is around 2-3 depending on Margo. I put Margo down first and then read some stories and put Heidi and Nigel down. Heidi doesn't always nap but I still make her rest for a bit. Now it's my quiet time. I till quick get dinner dishes done and start supper and then fold the clothes for the day and then put my feet up for a bit. Kelly normally gets home around 5 and naps are usually over by then. Supper is at 6 -6:30. Baths and showers start at 8 -8:30. Margo goes to bed by 8 or so. I will do supper dishes after Margo is in bed because she is way to much help with the dishwasher. Heidi and Nigel go to bed by 9 and Kelly and I soon after. This is if everything goes prefect which it doesn't always. Hope you enjoyed that and now I will tell you a little about the month of October.
Oct 1 I did some sewing. The 2nd I made bread and we went to folks for supper. The 3rd I made more bread as I have to take bread for the Thanksgiving supper and I serve sewing lunch the next day. I sewed some to. The 4th I made 3 ice cream desserts and sewed. I did have to run to Hythe for a couple of things. Kelly was in the field after work because harvest had started. The 5th I had to run to BL. Kelly helped in the field again. The 7th we went to Galen's for Thanksgiving dinner. The 8th was our Thanksgiving Day. Kelly had to run to town for some parts so we went along. I had to take 4 loaves of bread and all the honey mustard. Supper started at 6 but we got there about 5 or so to help the youth in the kitchen. We don't have very many youth any more. The 9th I has to serve sewing lunch. I had to take bread and dessert. The 12th I cleaned the house. the 13th Kelly and I dropped off Heidi and Nigel at his folks and went to town for groceries and his boss's birthday party at his work. The 14th we listened to my cousin Derek's wedding and then in the afternoon to Ricky's wedding. In the evening we decided to drive to Dawson as we hadn't been there in a really long time. The 15th I cleaned out 2 of my kitchen cupboards as we decided to do some moving in the kitchen and I needed to find room for some things. I got two medium size totes with stuff i didn't really use. One was stuff I wanted to keep and one I donated to Heather and gave the rest to Goodwill. The 16th I cleaned again. The 17th I went to Mom's to work on a special project that I needed Elaine's and Mom's help with. The 18th I made some french bread. The 19th I cleaned again. The last few evenings Kelly had been helping with harvest. He gets home and I pack him and Heidi and Nigel a supper and they go the field for a while. They have been running 3 combines this year. Kelly can't work as late as they all do because he has to work the next day. He stayed out till 10:30 or 11 and Heidi and Nigel stayed with him. The 20th Kelly was in the field all day and we had supper in the field. The 21st we went to Jared and Megan's for lunch and in the evening my car was almost out of gas so we ran to A&W for supper and the gas in BL. The 23rd we where in the field for supper. Kelly helped the last nights in the field. The 24th we had food committee meeting to help plan Ricky's reception. The 25th I made food for hot lunch the next day. I decided to make Cheesy Chicken and Rice with lettuce salad and french bread with cookies for dessert. I made one casserole and all the bread. In the evening Mom and Heather stopped in for a bit. The 26th I served hot lunch. Came home and had quick naps then I took Heidi and Nigel to folks for the evening while I went to town. Got Kelly from work and we did groceries quick and then to a retirement party for one of the guys at his work. The 27th I made cupcakes for Nigel's birthday. Kelly took Heidi and Nigel to town for parts for my car. A few things need fixing before winter sets in. In the evening we went to folks for harvest supper. They had finished harvest late Friday night. The 28th my little boy turned 4! He very proudly went marching off to Sunday School. I for the first time in years sat all by my self in Sunday school. Margo sits with Kelly because she sits way better with him then me. After Sunday school Nigel told me "mom I had so much fun!" The 29th I cleaned and had Isaac's for supper. He was helping Kelly fix my car. Heather had carpal tunnel surgery on her hand on Friday and one of Kelly's first cousins girl is out helping her with Nathaniel. The 30th I did book work which I do once a month. Kelly worked or on my car then realized he needed more part so he went to machine in the shop at folks as he has a job to do for someone.The 31st Kelly and the older kids finished fixing my car and then they went to the farm and he finished up his machining job. Well that's all for this time. Hope I didn't make it to long! Till next time......
